Hot off of making a name for himself with the "Rocky" franchise, Sylvester Stallone hopped from sports dramas to action thrillers, tackling the story of John Rambo in the original "First Blood." Based ...

In 1972, author David Morell released First Blood, a novel about a war veteran named Rambo, who is wronged by the police chief of a Kentucky town and wages a one-man war against the local and state ...